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Call it one-stop shopping: Links to the reviews of all 32 U.S. competition films — 16 Dramatic and 16 Documentary — that premiered during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Here they are, by category, and in alphabetical order:
U.S. Dramatic:
"Camp X-Ray," three stars.
"Cold in July," three and a half stars.
"Dear White People," three stars.
"Fishing Without Nets," three stars.
"God's Pocket," two stars.
"Happy Christmas," three and a half stars.
"Hellion," three stars.
"Infinitely Polar Bear," three stars.
"Jamie Marks Is Dead," two stars.
"Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter," two and a half stars.
"Life After Beth," three stars.
"Low Down," three stars.
"The Skeleton Twins," three and a half stars.
"The Sleepwalker," two stars.
"Song One," three stars.
"Whiplash," three and a half stars.
U.S. Documentary
"Alive Inside," three and a half stars.
"All the Beautiful Things," one and a half stars.
"Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart," three and a half stars.
"The Case Against 8," three and a half stars.
"Cesar's Last Fast," three stars.
"Dinosaur 13," three stars.
"E-Team," four stars.
"Fed Up," three and a half stars.
"The Internet's Own Boy," three and a half stars.
"Ivory Tower," three stars.
"Marmato," three and a half stars.
"No No: A Dockumentary," three stars.
"The Overnighters," four stars.
"Private Violence," three and a half stars.
"Rich Hill," two and a half stars.
"Watchers of the Sky," three and a half stars.
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And, as a bonus, here's my three-and-a-half star review of "Life Itself," the Documentary Premieres entry about Roger Ebert. That makes a total of 33 films I saw at Sundance 2014.
— Sean P. Means